Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are becoming a global problem for the U.S. armed forces. To prevent injuries to soldiers and provide better care to those who are injured, the U.S. military is striving to better understand how blasts impact the human body.
Donald Stein finds further vindication in his long-held belief that progesterone is more than just a female hormone.
University of Notre Dame researchers are testing a tablet-based computer program they’ve developed to help determine whether athletes, soldiers and others have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
While setting up her chemistry lab at Higley High School in May 2010, teacher Sharon DeRosa’s lab stool collapsed and her head struck the concrete floor. She was unconscious for a half hour and spent the night in the hospital. It marked the beginning of a changed life for DeRosa, who suffered traumatic brain injury.
Dr. Chiaravalloti receives $526,206 National Institutes of Health grant to study challenges faced by caregivers of persons with TBI.
Why is hockey such a violent and dangerous sport? Medical researchers from Canada have an answer: Blame the media.“Media reports of an issue such as TBI in sport can contribute to an altered culture,” they write in a study published online Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. TBI stands for traumatic brain injury, and it’s become a major public health concern in recent years.
The NFL faces an uphill battle protecting players from head trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CrimeTime31 is a real neuroscientist and is here to offer a boiled down perspective of what CTE is and the potential implications for football as we know it. This is not funny.
It’s one of the heart-wrenching images now etched into our minds: A Boston Marathon runner blown off his feet by a bomb blast — one of two explosions on Monday that killed three people and injured more than 170 others.
A new paper by researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA), appearing in the Journal of Neuroscience, offers the latest information concerning a “switch” that turns “on” and “off” inflammation in the brain after trauma.
Artwork decorates the walls of the Empire State Plaza’s South Concourse this week for the 20th Annual Brain Injury Association of New York State Art Exhibit.